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How leading organisations should measure their electricity emissions

August 24, 2021 · 5 min read

The climate crisis is here. The stakes have never been higher for corporate and institutional sustainability to be firmly rooted in science and drive as much…

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How to trace back the origin of electricity

April 19, 2021 · 7 min read

Electricity can be generated in many different ways, each with their own environmental footprint. As a concerned citizen (or as a responsible company), I might…

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Allowing everyone to use electricity at the right time for the climate

July 03, 2020 · 3 min read

At electricityMap, our goal is to build products that make it easier for everyone to reduce their carbon footprint. Today, we’re releasing a new project that…

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Announcing our partnership with Google

April 23, 2020 · 3 min read

Illustration from Google’s blogpost On Earth Day, Google, one of the world’s most influential companies and one of the biggest data center operators, revealed…

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How companies reduce their carbon footprint with electricityMap API

April 21, 2020 · 6 min read

When looking for ways to make a meaningful impact in the fight against climate change, we often look for leverage points - areas where changes will make an…

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Brick: a build tool for mono-repositories

March 23, 2020 · 7 min read

More and more organisations are embracing mono-repositories as it makes dependency management simpler (read more here). However, implementing and maintaining a…

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Marginal emissions: what they are, and when to use them

June 13, 2019 · 5 min read

Consider those two questions: How much am I emitting by consuming electricity at a certain time? What are the emissions avoided if I decide to consume…

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Why green electricity contracts fail to deliver green electricity

September 03, 2018 · 7 min read

Depending on where you live, your electricity retailer may have offered you a contract giving you electricity that exclusively comes from renewables…

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Do renewables always reduce carbon emissions?

July 11, 2018 · 4 min read

Fossil fuels are the largest source of greenhouse gases. As they still count for 80% of our energy source, and 66% of our electricity source, it becomes urgent…

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Estimating the marginal carbon intensity of electricity with machine learning

July 03, 2018 · 9 min read

How do you know where your electricity comes from? The answer, in its simplest form, is given by the electricityMap app. However, when consumers are faced with…

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A society where electric devices consume electricity at the right time

November 22, 2017 · 3 min read

The problem with renewable energy is its intermittency. In Ireland for example, it is not uncommon to see big variations in wind production. Those patterns are…

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No, country X did NOT just run entirely on wind.

June 03, 2017 · 2 min read

There’s a lot of misleading information about renewable energy. Take for example this news article (and there’s a lot more): (independent.co.uk) Denmark runs…

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